Site Reliability Engineer – Fintech
About this role
Client: US fintech (payments platform) · Location: remote, LATAM, US Eastern overlap · Level: senior · Engagement: full-time contractor, on-call rotation
You will keep a payments platform on AWS reliable and compliant, owning SLOs, incident response and the automation behind both.
What you will do
Define and track SLOs and error budgets for payment-critical services
Operate Kubernetes (EKS) workloads and the Terraform code that provisions them
Run incident response and blameless postmortems, and drive the follow-up work
Build observability with Datadog or Prometheus/Grafana and OpenTelemetry
Automate deployments, rollbacks and capacity management
Support PCI DSS and SOC 2 controls with evidence and tooling
What you bring
5+ years in SRE, DevOps or production engineering
Strong AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform
Coding ability in Go or Python
Experience with on-call for high-availability, transaction-processing systems
Advanced English
Nice to have
Fintech or regulated-industry background
Chaos engineering and load testing practice
AWS certifications
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